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Not surprising, because computing mean is O(n) and median is O(n log n).

Lack of resources or pure laziness doesn't make it the right measure to use though.

Interactive Brokers already offers this, so I'm wondering what the actual innovation is here.

> What I did do: learned basic Mandarin, established a relationship that has lasted 20+ years, read many non CS / non-technical books, focused on getting healthier and fitter.

Would imposing a structure and setting goals for your time off have helped or interfered with these (admittedly admirable) results?

Pretty much every dating app would be on this list if in-app purchases were taken into account.

Blaming disease spread on density is kind of a cop out after how we saw the world respond to crisis. Singapore, Taipei, Hong Kong, and most Chinese cities are super dense places that, for most of 2020, I would have preferred to be living in compared to the US.

They also don't care about security, until one day it bites them in the ass.

You've just described requirements that belong to a service. Congratulations, you made the right (obvious) decision.

I'm talking about writing entire services that are just wrappers around ffmpeg, pdf2html, parquet-tools, Olson tzdata, or a 10-parameter logistic regression. No stateful behavior, storage, or authoritative source of truth involved. The worst case I've seen was a service that just enumerates a bunch of values of constants (that actually never change).

There may have been some future-proofing in mind at the time, but more likely it was a solution in search of a problem.

It doesn't even take oodles of money from a SaaS platform to motivate turning a library into a service.

Even in in-house development, developers are often motivated to build services and have internal customers take dependencies on them so that they can expand influence and demonstrate ownership in a way that gets noticed by senior leadership and put them in line for promo. It also opens up the possibility for stakeholders to build their own little fiefdoms with access controls, intake processes, and a justifiable source of funding.

Can't do that with a library.

This is not the biggest HR issue GitHub has faced in recent memory.

https://www.businessinsider.com/tom-preston-werner-resigns-f...

To the extent that the parents chose to raise their children in an environment that taught them advanced emotional manipulation skills at an early age, sure.

This is basically how I feel about dating.

I would much rather have 75% pay for 13 weeks of PTO. Highly unlikely anyone will ever offer that.

Could be a Perl programmer, in which case it doesn't matter at all.

Who wants to work with me on my next startup, which sets up an innocuous-looking Facebook profile for privacy-conscious individuals, including friendships with other perfectly normal people and records of totally commonplace, unobjectionable activities? We can make sure that you'll never be rejected by a landlord, AirBnB host, or insurance company because of your online presence.

All for a low, low price of $9.99/month!

> I know a guy, a sales guy, who "worked from home" for a large multinational while earning six figures. He spent most of his time doing home improvement projects. He replaced his roof (himself), he built and installed new kitchen cabinets, he remodeled the entire house and painted it all.

You seem surprisingly judgmental about this given how upset you were about others not recognizing the effort you put into the business in your garage.

What happens if you have a very small false positive rate for fraud, and end up stiffing the customer? You could easily land in deep trouble with consumer protection laws after falsely satisfying their order.

Honestly, it's the growing realization that despite all of my efforts, I haven't done anything worth feeling proud of. To me that feels like I've lived a waste of a life.

As you can tell, this is an ineffective strategy for motivation.

Do you mean, working for the NSA with the intention of getting access to secrets and then leaking them?

If I want a $1,000,000,000 unicorn, and can't find it, is it because I'm not paying enough?

The fact that many SV companies want mythical beings to solve their engineering problems is an entirely different issue, but this does not invalidate their claims of a "shortage." It just means that they have failed to come up with a business that is capable of being worked on by the existing talent pool.

> When will the Peoples Republic grant self-determination to Tibet? That would be the action of a self-assured and mature state.

Probably around the same time a certain self-assured and mature state grants self-determination to the indigenous people of Alaska, Hawaii, and large parts of the Southwest. The rest of the country is a lost cause; ethnic cleansing and violent displacement has assured that going back is impossible.

Is this supposed to be Tron or Snake? I distinctly remember Tron being a multiplayer game, with the mechanics such that moving along a wall or trail increases your speed, putting you in position to cut off the other players and make them crash.

Uhoh. Dan Shipper's web-based business (http://www.airtimehq.com/) has run into a serious namespace collision.

You should try to be constructive on this forum.

It's one thing for someone to say "you should" for an entirely self-serving purpose (e.g. "you should follow me on Twitter"). It's an entirely different thing for someone to offer suggestions that may be counter-intuitive and deserve further exploration. You should learn to appreciate the difference, and think for yourself before venting.

Not if you invoke the nuclear option and put every facebook domain (including the fbcdn stuff) in your hosts file as 0.0.0.0

For a happier ending, try "Sex, Drugs, and Unix":

http://www.tenthousandmonkeys.com/078/078am.htm

Minor typo on your about page: Yasiv is a visual diScovery engine.

Step 2, unfortunately, is more likely to be "axe these useless dead-weight middle managers who waste resources on turf wars and lie out of their teeth to screw over everyone else" than some neat technology.

I suck at pure math, so I tend to think of this in some sort of analogy.

Suppose the fraction a/b is some statistic you are trying to measure, say, a batting average or percentage of correct notes played in Guitar Hero. (a+1)/(b+1) would be the new fraction after you got the next one right. By getting the next one right, did you improve your score?

Of course, if you have a perfect record already, getting an additional 1-for-1 won't change anything. And if a>b, then you'd have to somehow score more than 1 point per attempt in order to maintain the same ratio, so (a+1)/(b+1) would be lower.

I'd guess that whatever blogging software that was used here (WordPress?) doesn't make it easy to insert arbitrary JavaScript. Too easy to create a security loophole, especially on a third-party hosted blog site.

Considering that figures floating around say that as many as 90% of software projects fail, there's probably many of us in that group. (I consider myself one of them.)

There's got to be a way to put a positive spin on a project that was late, over-budget, rejected by the customer, poorly specified, technically misdirected, utterly mismanaged, and ultimately written off as a huge waste of time, money, and energy. But just saying "I learned a lot about how not to do things" doesn't really impress anyone.